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7/28/2019 AFPF Summer 2013 Newsletter
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AfricanFood and PeaceFoundation
JUNE 2013
Young men and women can gain both leadership and
trade skills by training at the URDT Institute
Warm Greetings, Dear Friends,
Thank You! Together with you, we are supporting successful, African-led rural development. Our American
community is crucial to the growing impact of Uganda Rural Development and Training Program (URDT)
and African Rural University (ARU). We are writing to Inspire You to commit yourself further to our mission.
The transformative eects of our shared mission are rippling throughout the Kibaale district and beyond.
We need your help to increase the impact and expand the reach of these institutions and professionals.
Food was always scarce. Most of the time, our
staple was cassava. It was a very unbalanced
diet. Sickness had become a routine. At URDT
Girls School, I was taught how to improve our
familys nutrition, like having kitchen gardens
where we grow greens, avocados, tomatoes,
and eggplant, so as to improve on our diet.
We were taught to drink and use boiled water,
to reduce the spread of diseases like typhoid.
People in the village have copied us. They are
cooperating with each other to improve their
living conditions, too. Atugonza Faridah, from
It Takes a Child to Raise a Village, the URDT Girls
School Book
Faridahs powerful story contains two fundamental principles that make URDT and ARU unique: mindset
change and a continuum of education and support.
Mindset change in context:
Rural development requires a resource base of
people at all levels who serve as catalysts,
subject matter specialists, and energizers within
their communities to create lasting positivechange. The local people must develop a
commitment to fundamental change in thinking
and action in order to improve their situations.
We call this shift mindset change, and it is the
basis of all of the development work supported
by African Food and Peace Foundation.
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African Food and Peace Foundation, 1060 Lowell Road, Concord, MA 01742 (978)-371-3122
www.afpfonl ine.org www.urdt.net www.aru.ac .ug Like us on Facebook
Farmers can shift from subsistence to marketproduction with support from URDT's Community
Agribusiness program.
Providing a continuum of education and support
URDTs critical institutions for sustainable
development are:
URDT Girls School utilizing a revolutionary
2-Generation Approach.
URDT Institute for Vocational Training and
Youth Leadership improving employability forUgandan youth.
African Rural University for women
creating a critical mass of professional rural
transformation specialists.
Community Driven Epicenter program, led by
ARU's graduates, expanding development in
partnership with local leaders.
Community Agribusiness education
empowering farmers to become entrepreneurs.
Community Radio station reaching millions of
listeners, providing a platform for informationsharing and cooperation.
Here are some examples of
what your gift makes possible
$50 Meals (3 per day) for a student for 1 month
$100 Utilities at URDT Institute for 1 month
$250 Safety gears for Maize Mill plant
$500 Transport and cell phone use for classfield work for 1 semester
$1000 Our Leadership Giving Level, subsidizesa student for 1 year
$2500 Internet and E-Library connection forARU for 1 year
$5000 Radio station on-air production studioimprovement and maintenance
URDT and ARU count on your support. Please consider making a generous donation now to African Food
and Peace Foundation. Best wishes for a happy summer.
With much gratitude,
Martha Dolben, on behalf of the Board and Sta of AFPF
D O N O R S P O T L I G H T
We recently took a fresh look at our charitablegiving. To whom do we give, and why? We
wanted to see direct, tangible and near term
good being done with our donations. Once
we set this standard, AFPF went to the top of
our list. Every year the projects and programs
progress and we have the benefit of hearing
directly from the people who actually have
feet on the ground in Uganda. With these
considerations in mind, we decided to double
our annual gift to AFPF.Tory Lambert, Leadership donor